Bird Understander Love Poem By Craig Arnold

Who is Craig Arnold?

Craig Arnold earned his BA in English from Yale University and his PhD in innovative writing from the University of Utah. Arnold’s 2d series of poetry, Made Flesh (2008), is “motored via vividly earthy language and disguised philosophical sophistication,” determined Publishers Weekly in a starred review, praising “sequences neither (quite) lyric nor narrative, however erotic and ever alert.” The raw, emotional depth of Made Flesh stands in stark reply to the classical, formal mastery displayed in Arnold’s first collection, Shells (1999), which received the 1998 Yale Younger Poets Award.

His honors protected the Amy Lowell Traveling Poetry Scholarship, the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the US-Japan Creative Artists Exchange Fellowship, the Alfred Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, a Dobie Paisano Residency, and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. A Fulbright Scholar at Universidad de los Andes in Bogota, Colombia, Arnold was once additionally an avid musician and carried out as a member of the band Iris.

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Bird Understander Love Poem

Of many reasons I love you here is one

the way you write me from the gate at the airport

so I can tell you everything will be alright

so you can tell me there is a bird

trapped in the terminal      all the people

ignoring it       because they do not know

what to do with it       except to leave it alone

until it scares itself to death

it makes you terribly terribly sad

You wish you could take the bird outside

and set it free or       (failing that)

call a bird-understander

to come help the bird

All you can do is notice the bird

and feel for the bird       and write

to tell me how language feels

impossibly useless

but you are wrong

You are a bird-understander

better than I could ever be

who make so many noises

and call them song

These are your own words

your way of noticing

and saying plainly

of not turning away

from hurt

you have offered them

to me       I am only

giving them back

if only I could show you

how very useless

they are not